Is it possible or worthwhile to reach out to TVE or Fox.com?
communicating with their paying customers is in their hands.
Can the TVE source be changed then? I'm using the same login info for EPlusTV and have noticed it has commercials rather than the "commercial break" message and is also ~30 sec ahead of the stream that TVE is using.
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It's also 1080/60 instead of 720/60...
I hope this isn't some sort of political stance by the devs. I took the "garbage in, garbage out" comment as in indication that the Fox News stream is the issue, but the web stream on foxnews.com doesn't exhibit any issues when watching in a chrome browser.
EPlusTV seems to be pulling from FOX One which is a fox.com address rather than foxnews.com for the live steam. Even if the TVE stream didn't have issues it would make sense to switch to this stream for the 1080p resolution and less delay.
For now it's either
- watch the stream from the source website fox.com or foxnews.com in a browser or app
or - Use EPlusTV or PrismCast to get the stream into Channels DVR
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Yep, Fox One app on Apple "records" all the shows I want and with perfect quality. And now I can watch OTA via my 2 Homerun tuners via Plex. I just subscribed to them, saving 2 bucks as I cancelled Channels DVR. Thanks TMM1, you are right (well, maybe not), Garbage in, Garbage out, and youre OUT!
Didn't mean for this to turn political, hopefully @tmm1's comment was referring to issues with the stream that Channels doesn't handle well.
For now I recommend using EPlusTV for Fox stations, hopefully the devs will move to Fox.com (FOX One) as the source for TVE Fox broadcasts
I prefer not to discuss conspiracy theories, religion or politics here.
Hopefully most users feel the same way. Don't feed the trolls.
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That's a well known, oft-used, phrase in Computer Science:
Ironically, that applies to Wikipedia too. Lincoln warned us about it. Found a way to inject a Fox stream into the Plex guide! real nice!!
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Whats confusing is the FoxNews stream doesn't have the "garbage" when using the web player, VLC, or IINA. I'm not saying there isn't an issue, just curious why it only seems to appear on Channels. If fixing that isn't worth the effort then changing the source to Fox TVE auth should be fairly simple.
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From where it happening may be a mystery, but I notice its very prominent during Hannity and Watters. Which leads us to the why... no conspiracies, but a coincidence, maybe.. no problems in Plex with the virtual tuner...
I would think they would have done that already.
Look at how long the ch6002 issues have been going on.
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FS1/FS2 have also had many issues over the years, these are also being pulled from a different 1080p stream with EPlusTV.
Yes, of course that's what it meant. We have nothing to do with, or do anything in the middle of what comes from the network's site, and what plays back in Channels. There must have been an issue with the source stream.
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It's an ongoing issue, as I mentioned it doesn't show up in chrome, VLC, or IINA. The TVE streams hosted by Fox also do not have this issue when using EPlusTV to bring them into channels. Please switch all Fox TVE streams to the Fox.com source if possible, these seem less problematic and are 1080p rather than 720p.
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There used to be a way to get the FoxOne channels m3u8 in chrome using an m3u sniffer,
The m3u8 needs to start with "cf" as below
But it works for less than minute in VLC and not in CHDVR either.403 Forbidden, likely times out.
Like this:
https://cf.edge.foxdtc.digitalvideoplatform.com/ZXhwPTE3NzY5NTcyOTk7YWNsPS9mbmMtdWUyO3dzaWQ9NGFjYzY5NDEtODViZC00NzdhLWJhMTMtZWY1NzhkNTM3YjFmO2htYWM9RTBtcWVSN1JOc2tLWkNmYkREbGh3WUpXZVZrL3NlYXl6YjV3Sksvd0hIQT0=/live/fnc-ue2/index.m3u8?ad_env=2&ad=fw_test&ae=45641e46f614125065559617b3efc5a2&bu=foxdtc&callsign=FNC&cdn=cf&channel=&device_id=61e7a592-76a4-4945-80ec-472370c3bde8&exp=1776870959&height=706&is_lat=0&isnationsku=false&isnationsub=false&mcl_region=ue2&network=FNC&nielsen_app_id=&os=Windows&osv=10&platform=web&profile=516429%3Aadrise_foxone_webdesktop_live&program_id=EP037476581367&site_section=foxone%2Fwebdesktop%2Flive%2Ffnc&traceid=4acc6941-85bd-477a-ba13-ef578d537b1f&us_privacy=1YNN&width=1536&xid=61e7a592-76a4-4945-80ec-472370c3bde8&yo.ai=70508&yo.av=4&yo.lpa=dur&yo.mv=6&yo.pbr=true&yo.pdt=sync&yo.pst=true&hdnts=exp%3D1776871019~acl%3D%2F*~hmac%3D3381b5edeb1e1d8c98d5dcf67a65d2f456f172f19b958c32bce3161903e1189c
So, no interest in explaining this or fixing it?
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This thread just saved me a lot of trouble! I was planning on running an ethernet cable under my parents' house from their server to the living room Apple TV to "fix" this problem! So it's not just them.
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